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New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,131,704 to it, the largest being THE JPB FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Gray Foundationshared funderslocal
- The New York Bar Foundationportfolio match
- Equal Justice America Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 19% · 2018 22% · 2019 26% · 2020 27% · 2021 26% · 2022 27% · 2023 30% · 2024 37% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $349k → $1.6M.
16 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
27% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 36% · 2019 42% · 2020 34% · 2021 27% · 2022 33% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
47% of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 62 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Gray Foundationshared funderslocalNY · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · funds 121 organizations near you
- The New York Bar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equal Justice America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barbara McDowell and Gerald S Hartman Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dla Piper Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Furtherjustice Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Health Law Program Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Immigrant Justice Corps Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Justice Catalyst Partnershipsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barker Welfare Foundationshared fundersFL · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Lily Auchincloss Foundation Incshared funderslocalNY · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 244 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc?
- New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc (New York) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,131,704 to it, the largest being THE JPB FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $10,131,704 in grants to New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc?
- THE JPB FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 62funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing